OT: Verizon wildcarding DNS

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 02:04:03PM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Fri, 7 Dec 2007 12:01:50 -0500):
> [...]
> >It *is* an entirely different category of thing, though, than
> >Sitefinder: this affects only customer resolver servers, only for your
> >ISP, and you can get around it.
> >
> >Sitefinder affected the *zone servers for .com*, and there was thence
> >no way *to* get around it; several orders of magnitude worse.
> 
> BTW, if they were really doing this to be helpful to their customers,
> as they say:
> 
>     This search service is designed to make your web surfing experience
>     more productive.
> 
> then they would take "ww.valid_domain" references and generate a redirect
> to "www.valid_domain", rather than have them land on their search page,
> which doesn't even include a link to the most-likely result they wanted.

If your dns doesn't CNAME ww. and wwww. to www., it's your own fault.

Cheers,
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